Improve backend_qt4 so it displays figures with the correct size

ddale · ddale · commit d4e113aa0775 · 2010-05-04T17:53:33.000Z
svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=8294
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2010-05-04 Improve backend_qt4 so it displays figures with the
+           correct size - DSD
+
 2010-04-20 Added generic support for connecting to a timer for events. This
            adds TimerBase, TimerGTK, TimerQT, TimerWx, and TimerTk to
            the backends and a new_timer() method to each backend's
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4.py b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4.py
@@ -318,6 +318,13 @@ def __init__( self, canvas, num ):
         QtCore.QObject.connect(self.toolbar, QtCore.SIGNAL("message"),
                 self.window.statusBar().showMessage)
 
+        # resize the main window so it will display the canvas with the
+        # requested size:
+        cs = canvas.sizeHint()
+        tbs = self.toolbar.sizeHint()
+        sbs = self.window.statusBar().sizeHint()
+        self.window.resize(cs.width(), cs.height()+tbs.height()+sbs.height())
+
         self.window.setCentralWidget(self.canvas)
 
         if matplotlib.is_interactive():
